Heroes of Might and Magic: Knight Chapter 580: Engage

The golden sunshine shines on the sea, and the waves glow brightly under the sunlight.

If it weren’t for the fish heads emerging from the sea, this would definitely be one of the most beautiful sights in the ocean.

The Sea Clan moved very quickly. On the same day after the Sea King gave the order, several surrounding Sea Clan groups had launched an attack in accordance with the Sea King's order, because the Harbor City was originally built at the core of the Sea Clan. The people living there are all the large groups of the Sea Clan. The Sea Clan's attack on Harbor City directly saves the time of mobilizing troops.

These Sea Clan tribesmen launched their own attack without waiting for the Royal Court’s elite to gather together. A group of Sea Clan warriors swarmed directly onto the beach of Harbor City.

"Fire the arrow!"

"Fire the arrow!"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

Waiting for them on the shore was the heavily prepared garrison of Harbor City. Almost all of the garrison of 5,000 people was deployed by Paul at the beachhead to prevent the sea tribe from landing near Harbor City.

"Ah, ah..."

A large number of arrows were poured into the dense queue of sea warriors. It may be said that the queue is a bit flattering to these sea warriors. In fact, they just crowded onto the beach one by one, shooting out under the arrows. There were strange screams.

The backbone of Paul's garrison are veterans who have participated in the battle with the Sea Tribe before, plus half of the new recruits. They have been trained for more than two months. Their combat effectiveness is about the same as the ordinary regular army of the kingdom. They are placed in the Northland Army. It is definitely a weak brigade in the sequence, and the crossbows in its hands are basically equipped with the standard equipment of the southern legions in the past. There is not a single powerful crossbow or divine crossbow equipped by the elite equipment of the North.

With such equipment, not to mention dealing with snow giants, whether they can break the armor of orc warriors depends on luck. However, when they deal with sea warriors, the effect is surprisingly good. Compared with the main army in the north, Unlike the heavy armored units they deal with all year round, the protection of the Sea Warriors is basically non-existent. The arrows fired by the Harbor City garrison can easily pin these Sea Warriors to the ground.

Coupled with the fact that the Hai clan warriors advanced in an extremely dense formation when they attacked, there was no chance that these arrows would miss the target. Soon the entire beach was stained red with blood, and the bodies of the Hai clan warriors were densely covered with light. The arrows alone caused thousands of casualties to the Hai Clan.

"Boss, these sea tribes are not very good. What's the difference between them attacking like this and dying."

Because Paul deployed his troops at high altitudes, the massive casualties caused by bows and crossbows to the Hai Clan were also clearly seen by ordinary soldiers, and any trace of tension caused by the huge numbers of the Hai Clan was washed away. Many, even some soldiers became a little optimistic, because killing these sea tribesmen seemed not to be much more difficult than killing their own animals.

It’s no wonder that these recruits are optimistic. These ordinary sea tribesmen are really not good in terms of strength or appearance. Ordinary sea tribes warriors are not much taller than dwarves, but their arms are thinner than human beings. They are more capable of fighting in the sea. He has a slight advantage. He is worse than human civilians once he is put on trial. It is not a big problem for ordinary people to have the courage to cut down a few sea warriors, let alone face these fully armed human soldiers.

It’s just that the veterans are silent. Unlike the new recruits, they are mentally unstable on the battlefield. They know very well where the advantages of the Sea Clan are. Their numbers, almost endless numbers, can make you After killing you until you are weak, you will be buried in the sea tribe. Now the old soldier is not even willing to waste the energy to speak. He just wants to save his energy as much as possible to face the endless battle that follows.

The development of the war is almost the same as what the veterans knew. Although the Sea Tribe shot down thousands of people with arrows, the number of Sea Tribe warriors on the beach did not decrease but increased. The number of Sea Tribe warriors who followed up He stepped on the corpse of his companion and rushed forward.

"Fire the arrow!"

"Keep shooting arrows!"

"Free Fire!"

"Shoot out all the arrows in your hands!"

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

In this case, the significance of volley fire is not great. Anyway, the arrows can cause casualties when fired. The volley fire will also affect the shooting frequency of some soldiers, except for some powerful crossbows reserved for dealing with patrol guards. , most of the crossbowmen began to use their skills freely. There was no shortage of supplies in Harbor City, especially reserves of arrows. These archers might not be able to use up all the arrows even if their hands were swollen after pulling the bow.

The casualties of the Sea Tribe are constantly increasing, but the Sea Tribe soldiers in the front row are constantly approaching the human front. It’s not that these Sea Tribe warriors don’t know fear, but that there are simply too many Sea Tribe warriors. , they advanced in a dense formation. Even if the sea warriors in the front row were frightened, they had nowhere to escape. They would only be pushed forward by the sea warriors in the back row. Many sea warriors were not even Those who died under arrows were trampled to death by their companions after falling.

"Quick!"

"Get rid of that patrol guard!"

Although the first batch of sea warriors who rushed up were used as cannon fodder, there were still some sporadic patrol guards among them. These patrol guards were nearly two meters tall, with big shoulders and round waists. Except for their lower limbs, which were fish-tail shaped. Outside, he is no different from a strong human being. He is particularly eye-catching among the sea warriors with an average height of 1.5 meters. If they get close to the front line, the threat they pose will be much greater than that of ordinary sea warriors.

Without the command of the commander, several accurate shooters in the team have already aimed at the patrol guards. These archers with strong crossbows and bows did not follow the large crowd of arrows just now, and were waiting for the patrol guards to appear. , their role is somewhat like that of the chasseurs in modern warfare, trying to attack some valuable targets.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh..."

"Dang, Dang"

The patrol guards were quickly taken care of by several sharp arrows, but these patrol guards were obviously not that easy to kill. Unlike the unprotected sea warriors, the sea patrol guards could be regarded as the backbone of the sea clan. In his hands, he basically held bone shields polished from the corpses of marine creatures. The skulls of some marine creatures were not necessarily much weaker than iron shields. The bone shields produced naturally had good protective power. After several blocks, they protected their vital parts. A few arrows were stuck in it, but it did not fall down, but continued to approach the human line.

"Bang!"

However, when the patrol guard approached a distance of more than ten meters, a black smoke rose from the human formation, followed by a huge bombardment, and the bone shield that had blocked several arrows for him was shattered. , there was also a wound as big as a bowl on the back. Under this kind of injury, no matter how tenacious the patrol guard was, he had no strength to struggle and fell straight on the beach.

"Bang, bang, bang..."

Next, intensive gunshots were heard in the human formation, and black smoke rose from the formation. Many patrol guards who had broken through the arrows fell to the guns without any resistance.

At this time, the human side not only has thousands of garrison troops trained by Paul, but also system soldiers produced by Harbor City. The gunfire just now came from the third-level advanced unit of the Harbor Force, the pirate captain.

More than eighty pirate captains stood in front of the team with old-fashioned matchlock muskets in one hand and scimitars in the other. The muskets in their hands had a short range and slow shooting frequency, but they were definitely powerful enough. They were at a distance of more than ten meters. The range of maximum lethality, let alone these patrol guards with simple armor, even a knight with heavy armor cannot withstand a shot from a pirate captain. If the shooting frequency is not good, these pirate captains will definitely be Level 4 or even level 5 troops.

Under the attack of the pirate captain, the patrol guards in the sea team fell down, but it still did not slow down the pace of the sea attack. The pirate captain took a step back and returned to the formation, and the human soldiers in the front row lay flat. With their spears, the battle officially entered the stage of hand-to-hand combat.

"Kill!"

"Kill!"

When fighting the Hai Clan, you cannot rely on common sense at all, because under normal circumstances, no army would be willing to use light infantry to attack a dense gun formation.

Paul's layout looks like a perfect turtle formation from this era, with spears and shields on the outside, sword and shield men in the middle to make up for leaks, mixed with some second-level soldiers and thugs from Harbor City, and the higher ground in the middle is The long-range was wrong, there were even a few high-level combatants like crocodile warriors in the team.

To break such a large formation, the general army has to slowly attack from a distance and harass a little bit to find flaws. How can it rush straight up like the Sea Clan? It simply doesn’t die fast enough and the formation is not broken. Our own morale will probably collapse first due to serious battle losses.

However, the Hai Clan quickly proved with facts that quantitative changes are enough to lead to qualitative changes.

The Sea Soldiers in the front row were pushed by the back row and couldn't stop. They hung directly on the human soldiers' spears, and then skewered them one by one like meat skewers until five or six Sea Soldiers were skewered. The soldiers in the front row could no longer hold their spears.

The fighting soon entered the most brutal stage. As a large number of sea warriors rushed up, stronger patrol guards also rushed up. Ordinary sea warriors could not survive until the human soldiers exhausted their physical strength. What a threat, but these patrol guards were different. As soon as the stone ax in their hands was smashed down, the human soldiers wrapped in the iron armor were still shocked and bleeding to the ground.

However, these patrol guards cannot be arrogant for long. They are either directly caught to death by sea eagles in the sky, or they are simply hit by a ball of destruction from the ocean warlock. Facing the fourth and fifth level troops of the harbor forces At that time, they were no better than those ordinary sea warriors who were like cannon fodder.

At the beginning of the close combat between the two sides, it was still a unilateral massacre of the sea tribe by the human army. Only occasionally there were scenes of a few patrol guards knocking down ordinary soldiers. However, after the battle lasted for more than ten minutes, the human side suffered no casualties. It also started to increase.

The first to fall were the new recruits in the garrison. Ten minutes of high-intensity combat with armor was almost the physical limit of some of the new recruits. Basically, they were not killed directly by the sea warriors, but at a certain point. He fell to the ground during an impact and had no strength to stand up. Later, he was pressed down by more than a dozen sea warriors who found gaps in his armor and killed him.

At this moment, the biggest gap between the veterans and the new recruits is revealed. Most of the veteran soldiers who can save effort are still continuing to fight, while the new soldiers are starting to become more and more powerless, because the attacks of the Sea Tribe continue and there is no chance of rest. No chance was given. After the battle lasted for more than half an hour, the soldiers who initially engaged had basically completely lost their combat effectiveness.

Even the speed of the second-level soldier madmen produced by the system has been greatly slowed down, and it is only a matter of time before they are completely exhausted. These sea warriors did not defeat the human army at all, but exhausted them alive and used their own The human troops on the shore were exhausted with their lives.

"Go to the reserve team! Hurry!"

Paul shouted hoarsely and ordered to be replaced by the reserve team. At this moment, his eyes were red. He could expect that the Sea Clan would launch a retaliatory attack, but he did not expect that the Sea Clan's offensive would come so quickly and fiercely. The defense line he deployed was only After supporting it for an hour, there were signs of failure.

After the reserve team was replaced, the battle line became slightly more stable, but everyone knew that according to the Hai Clan's offensive method, the human soldiers had basically no chance to recover their physical strength, and it would only be a matter of time before the endless Sea Clan soldiers were overwhelmed. Just a problem.

"I can only withdraw it."

After the war progressed to this point, Paul actually realized that he had made a mistake. Preventing the Sea Clan soldiers from landing on the beach could prevent the other party from easily deploying their troops, but he could not bear it and the other party did not take the lives of his people at all. It doesn't matter if you can't deploy your troops, and it doesn't matter if you use refueling tactics. There will always be times when you are tired of killing and exhausted. Even if every soldier has killed at least a dozen sea warriors at this time, you still don't know the number of the opponent. If there is any reduction, the damage caused will be meaningless.

It is better to defend in the city, at least there is a city wall to rely on.

But now that Paul wants to leave, the Sea Clan may not let him go. The two sides have entered a stage of close combat, and it is impossible to escape easily.

The long-range shooters fired two rounds of volleys at Paul's signal to cover their retreat. However, they were entangled by the Sea Tribe again before retreating far, and almost caused a rout. Fortunately, Paul was good at training and leading troops. Only then did they stabilize their position, but the situation became even more critical.

Paul could now see from a distance that some sea tribesmen who were stronger than the patrol guards appeared on the beach. Those sea tribes even wore armor that was better than humans, and they also had metal weapons in their hands. The cannon fodder attrition war is almost over, and the bloodline warriors of the Sea Tribe are about to take the field.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

Just when the Sea Tribe was gaining the upper hand, chaos suddenly appeared on the beach. A dozen humans over ten meters tall suddenly appeared in the middle of the Sea Tribe. Jumping around at will, he trampled a large number of sea warriors to death with just a few feet.

"It's so dangerous. The Sea Clan's movements are so fast. I went back to the Northland and the battle ended up like this."

"There are so many sea people, Sandro, it's your time to show off."

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